Titan Descent
Date: 16 January 2005
Satellite: Huygens
Depicts: Composite of DISR descent images
Copyright: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8 kilometres when the probe was descending towards its landing site.
The images have a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel and cover an area extending out to 30 kilometres.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project between NASA, ESA and Italy's ASI space agency.
Last Update: 1 September 2019